I am a professor of psychology at the Georgia Institute of Technology.  I help organizations identify what needs to be taught and trained and how to determine effective ways to do that training.  My research has been published in a variety of top-tier basic and applied journals in psychology, education, and human factors.  I have served as a consulting editor for a variety of key journals and as a grant proposal reviewer for a number of funding organizations.

Areas of expertise include:

• How to create instructional materials that help learners understand how to approach problems in a meaningful way rather than simply memorizing a set of steps that cannot easily be transferred to novel problems, tasks, and situations.
• Design of teaching and training materials–including software and multimedia environments–based on cognitive principles that help students and trainees learn basic tasks quickly and promote transfer to novel tasks, problems, and situations.
• I have developed a robust approach for teaching and training development.  Includes a unique task analysis technique, based on working closely with domain (content) experts, to identify what someone needs to know in order to solve problems or carry out tasks in a domain.  Results of the task analysis are used in conjunction with cognitive principles to guide the construction of teaching and training materials and environments.  This approach has been applied in a variety of training and learning environments such as training Army digital skills, learning physics, and developing ballet moves.

Contact:  richardcatrambone@gmail.com